Heather Exner-Pirot is Senior Fellow and Director of Energy, Natural Resources and Environment at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute in Ottawa, Special Advisor to the Business Council of Canada, Research Advisor to the Indigenous Resource Network, and Global Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. She has twenty years of experience in Indigenous, Arctic, and resource development and governance, with publications on Indigenous economic development, resource politics and policy, energy security, Arctic human security, regional Arctic governance and the Arctic Council, Arctic innovation, First Nations equity and own-source revenues, and more. She earned a PhD in Political Science from the University of Calgary in 2011. She serves on the boards of the Saskatchewan Indigenous Economic Development Network and the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation, and is a member of the Canadian Defence and Security Network and a Network Coordinator at the North American and Arctic Defense and Security Network. She is Managing Editor of the Arctic Yearbook, a member of Yukon's Arctic Security Advisory Council, and former Chair of the Canadian Northern Studies Trust. She has published more than 45 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and edited volumes, presented at over 100 conferences and events nationally and internationally, and authored dozens of op-eds in Canada's leading publications.
